5-letter words containing y, e, l
- lenny — a male given name, form of Leonard.
- lenya — Lotte [lot-ee;; German law-tuh] /ˈlɒt i;; German ˈlɔ tə/ (Show IPA), (Karoline Blamauer) 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).
- leppy — an unbranded or motherless calf; maverick.
- leroy — a male given name: from Old French, meaning “the king.”.
- leshy — (Slavic mythology) A male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- leyte — an island in the E central Philippines: focal point of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines 1944. 3085 sq. mi. (7990 sq. km).
- licey — Containing lice (the insect).
- likey — Alternative form of like.
- limey — a British sailor.
- liney — full of or marked with lines.
- loewy — Raymond Fernand [fer-nand] /fərˈnænd/ (Show IPA), 1893–1986, U.S. industrial designer, born in France.
- looey — a lieutenant of the armed forces.
- losey — Joseph. 1909–84, US film director, in Britain from 1952. His films include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), and Don Giovanni (1979)
- lovey — sweetheart; dear: used as a term of endearment.
- lyase — any of various enzymes, as decarboxylase, that catalyze reactions involving the formation of or addition to a double bond.
- lycee — a secondary school, especially in France, maintained by the government.
- lyell — Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
- lyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of lye.
- lykes — Plural form of lyke.
- lynen — Feodor [fey-aw-dawr] /feɪˈɔ dɔr/ (Show IPA), 1911–1979, German biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1964.
- lyres — Plural form of lyre.
- lysed — to cause dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- lyses — a river in W Europe, in N France and W Belgium, flowing NE into the Scheldt River at Ghent. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- lythe — (obsolete) soft; flexible.
- mealy — having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly: mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.
- medly — Obsolete form of medley.
- melty — Having a high tendency to melt.
- meryl — a female given name, form of Merle.
- moyle — Alternative form of moil.
- muley — (of cattle or deer) hornless; polled.
- myel- — the spinal cord or bone marrow
- mylae — a port in NE Sicily: founded in the 8th century bc; scene of a battle (1860), in which Garibaldi defeated the Bourbon forces. Pop: 32 108 (2001)
- nelly — a female given name, form of Helen.
- newly — recently; lately: a newly married couple.
- odyle — od.
- onely — Obsolete spelling of only.
- paley — Grace, 1922–2007, U.S. short-story writer and poet.
- pelly — a river in SE Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Yukon River. 330 miles (530 km) long.
- phyle — (in ancient Greece) a tribe or clan, based on supposed kinship.
- plyer — pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- poley — (of cattle) hornless or polled
- redly — with a red color or glow: a bonfire blazing redly in the dark.
- refly — to fly (a plane, helicopter, etc) again
- relay — a series of persons relieving one another or taking turns; shift.
- reply — followup
- riley — turbid; roily.
- seely — insignificant or feeble; poor.
- selby — Hubert, Jr. 1928–2004, U.S. novelist.
- selye — Hans, 1907–82, Canadian physician and medical educator, born in Austria.